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It's a rather demeaning term and means "meat devourer" or "meat muncher" (loosely translated).
by thg 6y ago
It's a rather demeaning term and means "meat devourer" or "meat muncher" (loosely translated).
- capableweb 6y agoThat doesn't seem to be accurate. First, Eskimos and Inuits are not necessarily referring to the same people, and Eskimo seems to come from Algonquian and means "snowshoe-netter" or "to net snowshoes", at least as far as I gather from some quick searching.
- asutekku 6y agoIf you would’ve read the whole NPR article, you would’ve realized that the “snowshoe-netter” is relatively new theory and does not suddenly remove the racist connotations the word itself used to have.
- bookofjoe 6y ago>Edmonton to drop 'Eskimos' name https://www.tsn.ca/edmonton-cfl-franchise-to-drop-eskimos-name-1.1496402 https://www.tsn.ca/edmonton-cfl-franchise-to-drop-eskimos-na...
- javagram 6y agoFWIW, https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/04/24/475129558/why-you-probably-shouldnt-say-eskimo https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/04/24/4751295... > But now there's a new theory. According to the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, linguists believe the word Eskimo actually came from the French word esquimaux, meaning one who nets snowshoes. [. . .] But the correction to the etymological record came too late to rehabilitate the word Eskimo. [. . .] Many Native Alaskans still refer to themselves as Eskimos, in part because the word Inuit isn't part of the Yupik languages of Alaska and Siberia. So it’s considered non-PC because for a while an incorrect etymology of “meat muncher” was used